Aug 26th, 2021

Author: donich_admin

Helensburgh in the rain

I went to see my Mum in Rhu today.  I can honestly say that there is nothing much more dismal than your Scottish seaside town when the weather is very bad, and Helensburgh is pretty typical of this.  When the sun is shining, it is a lovely place to be, but even in August it is miserable in the rain.

I remember coming to Helensburgh (for some reason I can’t recall, but it wasn’t tourism related) some years ago in March.  It was the foulest of foul days, pouring with rain and blowing a howling gale, and in the car park on the front there was a row of coaches, each one packed with sad looking pensioners.  I thought at the time that life must be going to hold something better for me than sitting in a bus in a car park in Helensburgh in March in pouring rain.  And I was right